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作者：Chung, W
作者单位：New York University
摘要：Firms have different motives for investing abroad, most notably to exercise existing capabilities, but also to build new capabilities by accessing knowledge located abroad. Recognizing this heterogeneity helps determine whether foreign investments transfer technology to their host industries. Using host industries' initial level of competition to differentiate when each of these dichotomous motives is more likely, I examine change in productivity resulting from inward FDI in US manufacturing i...
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作者：Birkinshaw, J; Toulan, O; Arnold, D
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; McGill University
摘要：This paper uses two theoretical perspectives, information processing and resource dependency, to examine global account management (the co-ordination of activities involved in serving a single customer in multiple countries), If is hypothesized that global account management structures allow the multinational corporation (MNC) to increase its information processing capacity as well as its bargaining power vis-a-vis the global customer. Using data on 106 global accounts in 16 MNCs, we find supp...
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作者：Peng, MW; York, AS
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Integrating transaction cost, agency, and resource-based theories, this study extends the work of Peng and Ilinitch (1998) by undertaking the first empirical efforts to explore the determinants of export intermediary performance. We suggest that given the transaction cost constraints and principal-agent conflicts, export intermediaries' performance depends on their possession of valuable, unique, and hard-to-imitate resources which help minimize their clients' transaction and agency costs. Sur...
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作者：Meyer, KE
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School
摘要：The process of change from a centrally planned system to a market economy generates an institutional framework that is only partially reformed, and therefore inconsistent and unstable. This leads to high transaction costs for economic agents. Multinational enterprises entering transition countries have to adapt their strategies to the local institutions and reduce exposure to highly imperfect markets. This paper analyzes how the costs of organizing business in transition environments influence...
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作者：Jun, S; Gentry, JW; Hyun, YJ
作者单位：Hannam University; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln; Ajou University
摘要：Satisfaction with the host culture has been found to influence the expatriate's commitment to the local operation and to the parent company. This paper investigates the role that the expatriate's consumer experiences play in the determination of his/her satisfaction with the new culture. Market alienation has a negative effect on satisfaction, but it is reduced by participation in the host marketplace. Further, cultural knowledge was not found to be directly related to satisfaction with the ho...
